From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2008-05-25T05:00:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ensuring only one instance of a script is running

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:40:49PM +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
> I've wasted a lot of time with pid files...

Hear hear. You could also use a process manager such as daemontools or runit -
that's generally what I do.

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Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com